Recent advances in the syntax and semantics of tense, aspect and modality
By: edited by Louis de Saussure, Jacques Moeschler, Genoveva Puskás.
Contributors: Saussure, Louis de.; Moeschler, Jacques.; Puskás, Genoveva.
Series: Trends in linguistics -- 185
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9783110195255
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions; Tense and modality (Linguistics); Semantics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modals, emotives, and modal subordination / Nicholas Asher and Eric McCready; title: The past and perfect of epistemic modals / Ronny Boogaart; title: Aspectual composition in idioms / Sheila Glasbey; title: A modified ExtendedNow for the present perfect / Björn Rothstein; title: The passé simple/imparfait of French vs. the simple past/past progressive of English / Arie Molendijk; title: Sequence of perfect / Tim Stowell; title: Temporal and aspectual variation in ARIs / Ricardo Etxepare and Kleanthes K. Grohmann; title: Economy constraints on temporal subordination / Hamida Demirdache and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria; title: Future time reference : truth-conditional pragmatics or semantics of acts of communication? / Kasia M. Jaszczolt; title: When the present is all in the past / Pranav Anand and Valentine Hacquard; title: Reference time without tense / Carlota S. Smith.